Chapter 6
"Tell me agents, what was at Mastriani's?" Pollock asked Nicole and Antonio when he seen then come off the elevator with 2 evidence bags.
"We found her cell phone and gun in the parking lot." Antonio said.
"So we can assume that she never made it inside, correct?" Pollock asked.
"I guess we could. There was nothing to indicate that she made it inside. Her door was locked and nothing looked disturbed." Antonio said. Nicole was listening to what Antonio was saying and she was trying to put all of the facts together, but the guilt was beginning to get to her. In the back of her mind she knew Jess didn't feel right about this case, like something would happen, but Nicole also knew that she couldn't let anything happen to her no matter what.
"Is there any possibility that Mastriani's disappearance relates to Deanna William's death?" Pollock asked.
"I will have an answer to that soon hopefully." Antonio responded.
"I don't want an answer soon agent, I want an answer now!" Pollock said getting frustrated.
"It could sir." Nicole spoke up. "Daniel Johnson knew Jess and Jess knew him. He was in a past case that she did, I'm assuming before she arrived here. He got away with kidnapping and murder due to lack of evidence so if it's him we might never know."
"At least this tells me what to expect from forensics. Cortez, go run prints from the phone and gun, Scott go with him." Pollock ordered them.
"Yes sir." Nicole said as they walked to the lab. "Antonio I don't like the way this is turning out."
"What do you mean?" Antonio asked Nicole.
"I don't know. It just seems like this is starting out like Deanna's case did. If it is Daniel, he's repeating the kidnapping of Deanna on Jess. If he is, Jess is going to die too Antonio."
"Nick, don't jump to conclusions just yet. Anything could've happened to Jess, not just something that relates to Daniel." Antonio tried to convince Nicole.
"I know Antonio, but still." Nicole said. She paced around the room, waiting to see if there were any fingerprints on the gun and cell phone. "Anything yet, Antonio?"
Antonio looked over at Nicole with worry in his eyes. "I ran prints on the gun, most of them are Jess's, but other than that whoever took her gun used gloves."
"Just like Daniel." Nicole said her guilt building.
"Nicole, half of all kidnapping suspects use gloves, not just Daniel." Antonio said.
"That's true but how many suspects want to kidnap Jess?" Nicole reminded him.
"Good point. Hang on, I just found something. It's a small strand of fabric." Antonio said.
"Alright?" Nicole asked not really following what Antonio was saying.
"Hang on." Antonio said as he was doing a few tests on the fabric. About 5 minutes past and he had the results he was looking for.
"What is it Antonio?" Nicole asked her voice full of worry.
"That strand of fabric was laced with chloroform." Antonio said because he knew exactly what Nicole was going to say.
"Just like Deanna was knocked out. Through chloroform. He has got to be the one that did this Antonio. All signs point to it." Nicole said, her voice filled with guilt.
"I know and I hate saying this, but I agree with you." Antonio said. "We need to go and fill Pollock in on what we found." Nicole just shook her head in agreement as she followed Antonio to Pollock's office.
"Sir." Antonio said as he entered his office. "We found several clues pointing to who might have taken Jess."
"Who?" Pollock asked.
"Daniel Johnson." Nicole said.
"Why?" Pollock asked.
"On her gun we found glove prints and a piece of fabric that was laced with chloroform. It matches up to everything that happened to Deanna." Antonio said.
"Do we know where Daniel Johnson is?" Pollock asked them.
"No sir. The two agents that went to his home while we went Jess's reported back that he wasn't there." Nicole said.
"Great. Just great!" Pollock yelled. He was extremely frustrated that Daniel could slip by them so easily, but he wasn't going to let him harm his youngest agent. They all also knew one other thing. If they didn't find Jess soon, she would end up like Deanna did... dead.
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Jess awoke about 5 hours later after falling back asleep. She awoke also to hear yelling between two people. She could make out that one of them was a man and one was a woman but she couldn't make out what they were saying. While she still listened to them yelling she looked around and noticed it had gotten dark. As she sat there and tried to figure out a way to escape, she heard the door to the room she was in fly open and hit the wall. "Well, you're finally awake." The man's voice said to Jess. She couldn't make out who the two people were because her eyes hadn't adjusted to the bright light that was behind them.
"Yes, with a severe headache." Jess remarked back.
"Aw, that's too bad. You're going to have a lot bigger problems to deal with very soon." The guy said.
Jess just looked at him while her eyes still adjusted to the light.
"You are going to end up just like Deanna did before long." He told Jess.
Once he said that, Jess recognized who was standing at the door. "Daniel?" She asked terrified.
"Yep, and look who I brought along that wants revenge too." Daniel said. At that moment, the girl walked around the corner and into the room. Jess was shocked when she saw her walk in.
"Oh no. Becky." Jess said to her self now realizing how much trouble she was in with the two of them being there.
Thank you to all of my reviewers! Next chapter... Becky, Daniel and Jess all end up talking and Jess learns a secret about the case that could solve Deanna's death... but will she live to tell everyone else? Please R&R... 4 reviews and I'll update! Lexie